A more diverse customer set could give big media companies like Comcast the same resilience to market shocks as Meta and Google enjoy, but persuading enough performance-minded brands to try CTV — and they’ll need a lot of them — takes constant effort.For Comcast, that effort means stacking up a slew of feature announcements and developing out its SMB-focused Universal Ads business even as its media execs attempt to court big-ticket advertisers during upfront negotiations.
Last week, Universal Ads released an MCP (Model Context Protocol) extension, following a similar policy change from Meta in April. The move means that small teams of marketers can connect home brewed AI media agents built with Claude or Gemini directly with Universal Ads, allowing them to build tools for campaign optimization or data analysis.
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Earlier this month, it inked a partnership with commerce media firm Koddi that allowed small business advertisers to use retail data to target audiences using Fox, NBCU and Paramount inventory. The week prior, it added linear inventory to the Universal Ads self-service platform, allowing SMB advertisers to run commercials (some made using AI tools) against broadcast TV.
